LGBT students at Brigham Young University, a school with close ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are speaking out in a new video about their religion, which forbids gay sex.

The campus group Understanding Same-Gender Attraction (USGA) recently created the video to speak out about the difficulty of being gay or lesbian at a Mormon school.

Several of the 22 students in the video confess that that they had thought about taking their own life. In fact, 74 percent of LGBT students at Brigham Young have contemplated suicide, and a remarkable 24 percent have actually tried to kill themselves.

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